#ration

We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it. ↗

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#religious #faith

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

One cannot live on anger, my son. ↗

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#inspirational #life-and-living #anger

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven. ↗

— Bethany Hamilton

#faith

External influences create internal chaos. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#inspirational #stepfamily #stepmother #family

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of. ↗

— Sharon M. Draper

#inspirational #life #experience

When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead. ↗

— Michael Barnett

#fiction #inspirational #thriller #family

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived. ↗

— Jane Austen

#inspirational #family

Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy! ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#inspirational #family

Small fruit is better than big words. ↗

— Jerry L. Lewis

#family #inspirational #self-help #family